So, what is the difference in the 2 scumbags other than the color of
their hat? Hang them both in the square please, and record it for us
serfs to watch and cheer.

Don't get me wrong, I don't trust Elon as far as I could throw him, but there is a world of difference between the two. One, you said yourself: Elon operates in the open, Soros from the shadows. Elon puts himself out there to be criticized. Second, whether you like him or his products or not, Elon builds shit that people actually want. Soros contributes nothing of value to the world.

2025-03-31 15:52 from Nurb432
If a overseas manufacturer builds a plant in the US to avoid
tariffs, does that really magically make it an 'American
product'? It's still a foreign company... 

As a country that used to be the place were rich outsiders built their factories...


It makes a big difference.

See, main reason why people in my province didn't starve in massive numbers is somebody built an industrial complex in order to assemble cars. Sure, the capital was foreigner and a big chunk of the profits from the industrial complex were shipped outside, but the opening of the industrial complex meant two things:

1 - Suddenly a lot of unemployed people had a job.
2 - We had access to cheap cars we manufactured ourselves.

Sure, they were shipping most of the cars out of the country to sell to rich 1st worlders and the mother company was keeping the profits, but the benefits were so massive everybody in the country now hates us because they built the factories on our soil instwead of on other counties.

The older I get the less libertarian i become.

Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really are better than others.

2025-05-04 23:58 from SouthernComputerGeek
The older I get the less libertarian i become.

I didn't know you there was a libertarian at all in you XD

2025-05-05 02:27 from IGnatius T Foobar

The older I get the less libertarian i become.

Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really

are better than others.

The point of libertarianism isn't that all cultures are equally desirable. Far from it. The point is to try to make it so you can be left alone while you partake in your barbaric cultural practices while your neighbor is lef alone partaking in his barbaric cultural practices, which is better than what we get when we try to convince people to become "one of us" when they clearly don't fit.

2025-05-05 15:06 from ZoeGraystone
Personally i think "cultures" are prone to anti freedom at their
core.   Once people band together into some level of
organization, things go bad, by human nature.

There is a good grain of truth to this, but on the other hand I don't think you can't have a functional society without common grounds. You know, shared values, shared convictions. The stuff we call a culture.